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Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky
2019-03-25 18:34

Hackers were interested in 600 or so targets, it is claimed A million or so Asus personal computers may have downloaded spyware from the computer maker's update servers and installed it, Kaspersky...

Spyware slips into 'million plus' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky
2019-03-25 18:34

Hackers were interested in 600 or so targets, it is claimed A million or more Asus personal computers may have downloaded spyware from the computer maker's update servers and installed it,...

Kaspersky: Asus shipped 'million-plus' pre-pwned PCs that downloaded backdoor from update server
2019-03-25 18:34

Hackers were interested in 600 or so targets, it is claimed Asus may have shipped more than a million computers with compromised firmware that downloaded and ran spyware on the machines, Kaspersky...

Kaspersky Lab takes bite out of Apple in Russia over borked parental controls app
2019-03-21 17:15

Store policy removed key features, alleges complaint Antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has lodged a complaint about Apple with the Russian competition authority.…

Kaspersky Files Complaint Against Apple Over App Store Policy
2019-03-20 07:04

Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday filed a complaint against Apple with the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service after the tech giant introduced a new App Store policy requiring it to remove some important...

Kaspersky Lab Launches New Threat Intelligence Tool
2019-02-20 15:16

Kaspersky Lab this week announced Kaspersky CyberTrace, a free threat intelligence fusion and analysis tool to make it easier for security teams to access threat intelligence.  read more

Revealed: Numbers show extent of security fears about security biz Kaspersky Lab
2019-02-19 13:05

Global sales up 4% but North America element down 25% Eugene Kaspersky's security biz saw turnover crash by a quarter in North America following the US government's decision to remove the...

Black hats are great for language diversity, says Eugene Kaspersky
2019-01-23 12:21

Also reckons Russian hackers go quiet over the Christmas holidays FIC2019 According to Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the eponymous antivirus company, black-hat hackers are increasingly likely to...

Facebooker swatted, Kaspersky snares an NSA thief, NASA server exposed, and more
2019-01-12 10:30

Plus, Vita boot ROM caper, TCL caught slinging Android malware, etc Roundup This week we saw a Huawei official cuffed (again), telcos caught selling tracking data (again) and Microsoft patching...

Blacklisted Kaspersky Tipped NSA on Security Breach: Media
2019-01-11 05:41

The computer security firm Kaspersky Labs helped the US NSA spy agency uncover one of its worst-ever security breaches -- one year before the US banned the company's products for government use,...